Custom Partition Fedora 18

[jonc]

On 02/17/2013 03:50 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>> Fedora offers 9 versions http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ in addition to the mainline release, including KDE,
>> XFCE, and LXDE.  That's in addition to the availability of MATE and Cinnamon in the mainline release.
> these are not really 9 versions
>
> a spin more or less a different set of default packages with
> a different defaut desktop and contains NOTHING you could
> not install with the DVD-ISO
>
> that said: if there is a probelem with a fedora release
> because basic components are switched in a to soon level
> of development this would affect ANY spin
>
> example: systemd, it was broken in F15 and affected all
> spins, broken in the way most services not converted and
> supressing most warnings/errors of services to maek it
> impossible debug them in a sane way
>

Quite true and not really any different than Ubuntu, where you can 
download one image and use it to install that distribution in any of its 
various forms. The basic point is that the existence of these 
variations, and the people who use them that we choose to call 
"communities" don't really gauge, in any meaningful way, the popularity 
or acceptance of one desktop environment or the other. They do point to 
the existence of small groups of people who have the desire and time to 
produce these variations. But, they don't have any better way of 
determining how many people use and like their products that anyone else 
does.

It's my understanding that Fedora's primary role is to evaluate and 
explore software for Red Hat, not necessarily to produce a stable 
consumer-level product.  That's very much Ubuntu's mission, but it isn't 
Fedora's. I expect Ubuntu not to break.  I expect Fedora to break.  
Oddly, in my own experience, they both break about the same amount.